Franz Prante

Contact

Career

Research projects

Current

• MORPEP - Monetary Policy and Energy Prices
• SEED - Social-Ecological effects of green public expenditures

Other

• DIY Macroeconomic Model Simulation
• WIPOSIM Projekt
• Austerity, the Italian healthcare system and the Corona crisis
• MGWK - Model-theoretic Foundations of Controversies in Economic Policy
• Dissertationsprojekt: Essays on income distribution and demand-led growth, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord / HWR Berlin

Current publications

• Empirical benchmarks for ESCB models: A quantitative assessment of the macroeconomic impact of the 2022-23 monetary policy tightening, 2025 (with Bobasu, A., Ciccarelli, M. & Gechert, S.), SUERF Policy Note No, 381
• Interest rate hikes are less powerful in reducing inflation than conventional wisdom suggests, 2025 (with Enzinger, M., Gechert, S., Heimberger, P. & Romero, D. F.), SUERF Policy Brief No, 1287
• The overstated effects of conventional monetary policy on output and prices, 2025 (with Enzinger, M., Gechert, S., Heimberger, P. & Romero, D. F.).[OSF Preprint] [GitHub]
• The Price Elasticity of Heating and Cooling Energy Demand, 2025 (with Gechert, S., Mey, B., & Schäfer, T.) [OSF Preprint] [GitHub].

Awards & fellowships

• SaxFDM Open Data Award 2025
• Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Science and Transfer
• Tiburtius-Award 2017
• Kurt-Rothschild-Award 2017

Other publications

Books

• Introduction to Macroeconomics: Pluralistic and Interactive, Interactive online textbook, 2020 (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein & A. Truger). german / englisch
• The German Financial System and the Financial and Economic Crisis, Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, Vol. 45, Springer, 2017 (with D. Detzer, N. Dodig, T. Evans, E. Hein & H. Herr). Link

Journal articles

• Demand and growth regimes in finance-dominated capitalism and a progressive equality-, sustainability- and domestic demand-led alternative - A post-Keynesian simulation approach, PSL Quarterly Review, 2023, 76(305), 181–202 (with A. Bramucci & E. Hein). Link to paper / Link to R code for replication of the stock-flow consistent model
• Varieties and interdependencies of demand and growth regimes in finance-dominated capitalism, Review of Keynesian Economics, 2022, 10(2), 264-290 (with A. Bramucci & E. Hein). Link to paper / Link to R code for replication of the stock-flow consistent model
• Decades of tight fiscal policy have left the health care system in Italy ill-prepared to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. Intereconomics, 2020, 55, 147–152 (with A. Bramucci & A. Truger), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-020-0886-0.
• Pluralist macroeconomics – an interactive simulator, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2020, 11 (1), 55–78 (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein & A. Truger), https://www.doi.org/10.1504/IJPEE.2020.109496.
• Macroeconomic effects of personal and functional income inequality: theory and empirical evidence for the US and Germany, Panoeconomicus, 2018, 65(3), pp. 289-318, https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN1803289P.

Book contibutions

• Functional distribution and wage inequality in recent Kaleckian growth models, in: Bougrine, H., Rochon, L.-P. (eds.), Economic Growth and Macroeconomic Stabilization Policies in Post-Keynesian Economics, Essays in Honour of Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia, Book Two, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020, 33-49 (with E. Hein). Link
• Interaktive Makroökonomik – ein pluraler Simulator, in: Fridrich, C., Hedtke, R., Ötsch, W.O. (eds.), Grenzen überschreiten, Pluralismus wagen – Perspektiven sozioökonomischer Hochschullehre, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2020, 25-49 (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein & A. Truger). Link

Other

• Pre-registration of the project “Do monetarypolicy shocks affect output, employment, andprices? Meta-analyses on the effects ofconventional monetary policy, 2023, OSF public pre-registration, (with Enzinger, M., Gechert, S. & P. Heimberger), 10.17605/OSF.IO/CDUQ4
• Pre-registration for the meta-analysis of CO2 pricing and the elasticity of heating and cooling energy demand, OSF public pre-registration, 2023 (with Gechert, S., Mey, B. & Schäfer, T.), 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZDCHE
• Open-source website on macroeconomic model simulation, macrosimulation.org, 2023 (with K. Kohler).
• Interaktiver Simulator: Welche drastischen Veränderungen nötig wären, um das 1,5-Grad-Ziel noch zu erreichen, Makronom, 22.3.2022 (with T. van Treeck). Link
• CO2-Emissionen und Wirtschaftswachstum: Szenarien aus dem Online-Tool „Decoupling or degrowth?“, ifsoblog, 24.2.2022 (with T. van Treeck). Link
• Austerität, das italienische Gesundheitssystem und die Corona-Krise, WISO Diskurs, 03/2021, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Abteilung Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik (with A. Bramucci & A. Truger). Link
• Covid 19: Zahlt Italiens Bevölkerung den Preis für die Sparpolitik?, Makronom, 29.4.2020 (with A. Bramucci & A. Truger). Link
• Income distribution and the multiplier - an exploration of non-linear distribution effects in linear Kaleckian distribution and growth models, IPE Working Paper, No. 121/2019. Link
• Modelltheoretische Grundlagen wirtschaftspolitischer Kontroversen: eine computergestützte Aufbereitung, FGW Impuls Neues Ökonomisches Denken 14, 2019, Düsseldorf: Forschungsinstitut für gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein & A. Truger). Link
• Makroökomischer Simulator: Wirtschaftspolitik interaktiv und plural, Makronom, 11.3.2019 (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein & A. Truger). Link
• Post-Keynesian Economics, Orientation text at Exploring Economics, 18.12.2016 (with A. Aboobaker, K. Köhler & R. Tarne). Link